I have a Phd in History from University of Sydney and am an independent scholar. I have held two ARC Professorial Research Fellowship at University of Tasmania 2001-2005 and University of Sydney 2006-2013. I also held a Fulbright Visiting Professorship at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2001as well as Visiting Professorship at the University of Texas 2017 and again in 2008, and a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at Kings College London in 2013.